Jay Hulme
@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
My friends had a baby and I spent years visiting them like "oh okay there's a weird blob screaming in the corner" but now he's old enough to have a personality and hijack his parents phone calls to yell "UNCLE JAY! COME AND VISIT US YOU POO POO HEAD!" and now I'm absolutely ride or die for that kid.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My friends had a baby and I spent years visiting them like "oh okay there's a weird blob screaming in the corner" but now he's old enough to have a personality and hijack his parents phone calls to yell "UNCLE JAY! COME AND VISIT US YOU POO POO HEAD!" and now I'm absolutely ride or die for that kid.
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For anyone looking at this and thinking 'wow' i'd like to add that every building has a fully decorated interior and is connected to the sewer system that runs underneath the entire city
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For anyone looking at this and thinking 'wow' i'd like to add that every building has a fully decorated interior and is connected to the sewer system that runs underneath the entire city
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Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.
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This was so beautiful. Thanks @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social. Our society is so full of the language of contracts & customers that we forget about the language of gift; that we & others are one in frail and beautiful needfulness. 🌷
Daily Service - Letter to Corinth - Abundance mentality - BBC Sounds
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Jay Hulme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This was so beautiful. Thanks @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social. Our society is so full of the language of contracts & customers that we forget about the language of gift; that we & others are one in frail and beautiful needfulness. 🌷
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If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Daily Service - Letter to Corinth - Abundance mentality - BBC Sounds
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Jay Hulme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Daily Service - Letter to Corinth - Abundance mentality - BBC Sounds
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Jay Hulme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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[After turning worldwide food supply into grey slime slop made of radioactive jellyfish] It would seem generation alpha has no taste for food,
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
[After turning worldwide food supply into grey slime slop made of radioactive jellyfish] It would seem generation alpha has no taste for food,
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
People talk about trying not to put on weight at Christmas, when a Christmas tradition my friends and I share is weighing ourselves on the morning and evening of Christmas day to see what percentage of us is Christmas Dinner. (The goal is to become 10% Christmas Dinner, but the current record is 7%)
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
People talk about trying not to put on weight at Christmas, when a Christmas tradition my friends and I share is weighing ourselves on the morning and evening of Christmas day to see what percentage of us is Christmas Dinner. (The goal is to become 10% Christmas Dinner, but the current record is 7%)
When I got my own place my Grandad gave me the first artificial Christmas Tree he'd ever owned, and a box of random decorations.
She's looking good for 64 years old...
She's looking good for 64 years old...
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
When I got my own place my Grandad gave me the first artificial Christmas Tree he'd ever owned, and a box of random decorations.
She's looking good for 64 years old...
She's looking good for 64 years old...
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The 25th of November is St Catherine's feast day.
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
"This isn't about God,
the stained-glass legends of broken wheels, the barrowload
of miracles, or the dinner-plate halo they will nail to your head.
Under the gospel,
the truth of it: woman answers back, ends up dead."
- Rosie Garland
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![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.
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Anecdotal, but in June a pal returned from Glastonbury and Wimbledon, comically sunburned from both. "Ha!" I said, "remember when we were kids, every year it was mudbaths at the main stage and rain-stopped play on centrecourt? That was the *whole* deal with both those things- oh right jesus fuck".
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Anecdotal, but in June a pal returned from Glastonbury and Wimbledon, comically sunburned from both. "Ha!" I said, "remember when we were kids, every year it was mudbaths at the main stage and rain-stopped play on centrecourt? That was the *whole* deal with both those things- oh right jesus fuck".
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trans day of rest. trans week of chill. trans year of taking a nap
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
trans day of rest. trans week of chill. trans year of taking a nap
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WHO IS CALLING THE BELGIAN ROYAL LIBRARY *DUSTY*???
Look at it:
Look at it:
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
WHO IS CALLING THE BELGIAN ROYAL LIBRARY *DUSTY*???
Look at it:
Look at it:
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If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
growinguptransgender.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
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Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
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Trans in the USA, never had to do this, it all turned out fine.
The informed consent model works.
Trans people can make our own medical decisions.
Hormones should be over the counter at the drug store.
The informed consent model works.
Trans people can make our own medical decisions.
Hormones should be over the counter at the drug store.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Trans in the USA, never had to do this, it all turned out fine.
The informed consent model works.
Trans people can make our own medical decisions.
Hormones should be over the counter at the drug store.
The informed consent model works.
Trans people can make our own medical decisions.
Hormones should be over the counter at the drug store.
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Engaging in Luddite behaviour daily for my mental health
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Engaging in Luddite behaviour daily for my mental health
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I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I would argue that midwifery is actually the oldest profession. A number of other mammals have similar practices of checking in on herd members labouring. We have the capacity to help each other and we have always done this. THAT is natural. To help is to be human.